TweetYears

Too many sites these days try to concentrate on so much. TweetYears goes against this trend, providing just one simple service: Telling you how long you have been using Twitter.

The idea came about as I was wondering myself how when it was that I had a user, with no apparent service offering it already I decided to make it myself. Taking advantage of Twitter’s free API to work out exactly how long you (the user) has been on there for.

The interface represents the simplicity of the service, featuring only a text box for entering your username, and a button to retrieve your age. In addition I went for a simple design, produced using the free vector image editor, Inkscape, as well as the jQuery javascript library for animation and fetching data.

This website has been featured on numerous blogs & websites; including SingleFunction, Paperblog (French), and IKUBON (Japanese).

I have also opened up the backend that TweetYears uses as a free API, allowing other developers to integrate it’s services into their own websites. More details of this can be found here: TweetYears API

Website: http://www.tweetyears.com/
Twitter: @TweetYears
Technologies Used: PHP, jQuery (AJAX, JSON, Javascript), Inkscape (Graphics), HTML/CSS